Unity: Product Visualization

Course details

Our world is filled with cool products, designed by talented and skilled creatives. Unity is a real-time rendering tool that is ideal for showcasing great product designs and ideas. In this course, designer Alan Thorn demonstrates step by step how to use Unity to comprehensively previsualize a retro-style coffee maker in an interactive way. Alan shows how to build the coffee maker from start to finish in Unity, and test out different features like pushable buttons, levers, moveable mugs, and other engaging product characteristics that can be previewed effectively in real time. He also demonstrates how to create camera sequences and work with responsive and adaptive user interfaces. This course is ideal for digital creatives and product designers seeking to showcase their ideas with depth and energy. By the end of this course, you'll be able to create real-time visualizations for your own products using the Unity engine.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Product visualization beginning to end
02 - Exercise files

1. Getting Started

03 - Project creation
04 - Project review and package import
05 - Importing project assets
06 - Material workflow

2. Material Creation and Rigging

07 - Creating the body material
08 - Making glass and chrome materials
09 - Creating a plastic material
10 - Working with textures and mapping
11 - Coffee maker rigging

3. Cinematography

12 - Cinemachine and virtual cameras
13 - Moving forward with virtual cameras
14 - Camera transitions
15 - Creating user interfaces
16 - Working with interface buttons

4. Labels and Notifications

17 - Creating world-space labels
18 - Pivots and positioning
19 - Label depth and the compositor
20 - Camera-facing billboards

5. Creating Product Animations

21 - The coffee mug animation
22 - The tray removal animation
23 - Production rotate animation
24 - Coffee grinder animation

6. Sub-State Machines

25 - Introducing sub-states
26 - Creating the coffee mug loading sequence
27 - Working with animation parameters
28 - Tray removal and conflicts
29 - Working with multiple sub-states
30 - Connecting the UI to sub-states
31 - Water refilling

7. Polishing and Building

32 - Repairing animation glitches
33 - Controlling label visibility
34 - Handling interactions
35 - Controlling the handle and tray animations
36 - Creating the power and shot buttons
37 - Creating a coffee particle system
38 - Reviewing your progress
39 - Building the visualization

Completing Product Interactions

40 - Conclusion